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Pippi and Pip ride Old Man down from the high school and make a bee-line for Serenity Cove where Pippi had parked her boat when she arrived.

The hooves clatter on the pavement as Old Man moves faster then he's been seen to move since he arrived.

Both students are wearing large dark coats and dark hats with wide brims. Pip's long red scarf streams out behind them, flapping in the wind as if waving good bye to somebody they've left behind.

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Pip had removed an automatic from a shoulder holster and was carefully scanning the area with his one good eye.

No cops. No cops at all. And the mayor's place was definitely gone.

This was definitely not a good night to be out in Fandom. He thumbed off the safety.

Old Man continues to clatter through the streets.

"I don't think we'll have much trouble." she says back to Pip.

"I don't hear nearly as much noise as there was earlier. This should be a snap."

"Oi!" Walter came around a corner following the sound of horse's hooves. It seemed likely he'd find either DEATH or Pippi.

Old Man skidded to a stop.

"Walter?"

"I thought it might be you. What are you two doing out on this lawless night?"

Probably the same thing Walter was doing except maybe more responsibly.

"I left my boat sitting out in the open. And I didn't want it to get burned down. We may be able to use it for the sailing event of your competition thingy... Pip's just along for the ride because he's sporting like that...

And you?"

"Restless. Things are getting exciting out here. I thought I'd... I thought I would come see what was going on. Besides, Alfred is going to make sure I never have another day off, so I will have to make do with evening antics."

"Ahhh." she said. "Well, I can offer you an exciting ride down to Serenity Cove to watch my back as I pull a boat through the sand..."

"I'd be mad... I would be mad to turn down a chance to watch you do that." Walter knew Pippi was strong, but that strong? It would be well worth watching.

"And I will always have your back if you need it." He went to stand next to Old Man. "If he can not take three, I can easily keep up."

This no contraction thing was really annoying.

"He's spry, I just call him Old Man. Hop up."

"Well hop up then," Pip said, transferring his gun to his other hand and reaching down to grab Walter's. "How did your meeting with Alfred go?"

Walter easily climbed up behind Pip, watching their surroundings even more that he was in an easily targeted position.

"Better than I thought, although I will never have another day off ever, and he has some odd dos and don'ts."

Pip grinned. "Told ya so. What are the do's and don't's?"

"Rules."

"Do keep up my 'activities' at school. He actually said he encouraged them!" The good.

"But he doesn't... does not want me to use contractions. Or swear. Do you know what a bother that is? It is actually more of pain in the... but I am not supposed to say that. But he can, 'because he knows better.'"

"Well... Life is full of trade-offs." said Pippi giving the horse a nudge..

And Old Man took off like a shot.

Pip laughed. "It's what you get for siging up for the butler gig, I guess. You've got to be a gentlemman. " He seemed to find this whole thing hilarious. "What's stopping you from using them when he's not around?" he asked.

He was still holding his gun pretty firmly. Healthy sense of paranoia and all.

"I thought I would try to get in the habit. He has a mean ruler hand and I don't feel like forgetting when I am around him and getting cracked."

Walter may have accidentally jammed Pip in the ribs with an elbow. Not hard enough to bruise. Probably.

"It is not much farther." said Pippi, "Wow... That is hard."

Screw that.

Old Man came to the dirt path that led down the hill to the beach and didn't bother even slowing down. He skid down the slope like a kid on a water slide... Except this kid was a horse with three real kids on its back.

He hit the sand at the bottom of the slope and made for where Pippi had left her boat in the sand, just above the high tide line.

Pippi jumped off Old Man and headed to the boat.

"You guys can wait here, I'm just gonna pull it out to the water.

She went to the back of the boat, dug her feet in the sand and did just that.

Pip descended from Old Man and pulled out another automatic. He paced around the shore a little nervously, as if he were expecting trouble.

Walter perched on Old Man's back and looked around for any trouble. It really didn't seem as though much was happening down here, but you ~~could always hope~~ never could tell.

He was quite impressed by Pippi's feat of strength.

Pippi finished getting the boat to the water and waved the others over.

She lifted Old Man, with Walter still on him, into the boat.

"Get in." she said to Pip.

Once Pip was in she pushed the boat the rest of the way into the waves and hopped in herself. She pulled out a pair of huge ores and started rowing.

Singing a song in rythem with each pull.

"Well I sailed from Auckland to the Block,
A t'ousand miles and that's enough.
A t'ousand miles in the grinding sea.
Glory hallelu that's the life for me."

Walter laughed and stood up on Old Man's back when Pippi picked up the horse. Victor was never going to believe this. It was brilliant!

"Are we spending the night out here tonight?" That could be fun.

Pippi left off singing but continued to tap out the rythem with her foot and kept on rowing with it.

"I hadn't planned on it." she said looking up at him. "I just wanted to get the boat situated and then I thought to ride back up to the dorms... I'll be honest, I kinda hoped something exciting would happen. But if it hasen't by now, spending the night in the cold isn't going to make anything happen I should think. It's just gonna make Old Man grumpy. He's quite spoiled having his own room."

They were nearing the docks.

"I'll tie it up on the dock, near that Artie guy's house. He's the strongest man... In the world! Nobody's gonna mess with a boat that he lives near I bet."

"There are an awful lot of strongest people here."

Thinking about the previous cold night, Walter decided that Pippi had an excellent point about a night out in the cold, especially on the water. They'd have to try that when the weather got warm.

"The troublemakers must be afraid of us," Walter said with typical self-assurance. "We might as well sleep someplace warm."

"Either that or they are the troublemakers with the good sense to go to bed..."

They got to the pier, Pippi managed to lasso a catch and pull them up.

She tied it off, lifted Old Man, still with Walter, out onto the dock. Let Pip give her a hand up. And everybody rejoined Walter up on Old Man's back.

Who was very grumpy by now as he could have been in his nice warm room this whole time eating hay.

Damn, trouble seeking kids who couldn't even find any trouble.

"I think I am ready to go someplace warm and have some more tea. I'll make you a proper English cuppa you three." Walter expected razzing from Pip and didn't care. At this point, ~~his mun was for bed~~ he was for mindless television in a warm room with a hot cup of tea and a snack.

"I'm cooking, let's go home."

"Deal."

She gave Old Man's flanks a kick and ~~her mun went to bed~~ they sped off towards the school.

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